It is the first Monday in December, which means Mailbox Monday has a jazzy Christmas mailbox picture. Fa la la! I'm also celebrating t...

I love Christmas and Christmas traditions! This is the 12th year I've done an advent calendar type countdown here on Rose City Reader...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNING In 1863, as gold miners poure...

Heading into the holidays always puts me in the mood to cook more elaborately, which has me poking around in my cookbook library this wee...

Holiday festivities are in full swing at my house, with family in town and pie baking begun. I almost forgot to post about the books that ca...

The Preserve by Steve Anderson, published by Skyhorse / Simon & Schuster Steve Anderson’s new book is a post-WWII thriller set on...

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! MY BOOK BEGINNINGS I have two books today, both Ho...

Pelham Grenville ("P. G.") Wodehouse is the master of comic fiction. He wrote close to a hundred novels and books of short ...

I'm doubling down on the teasers this week, with one from a new historical thriller and another for Nonfiction November. They trave...